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... natural curiosities . One , in particular , I had copied with tolerable exactness from a notice of one of my own discourses , which , from its su- perior tone and appearance of vast experience , 1 concluded to have been written by a man ...
... natural curiosities . One , in particular , I had copied with tolerable exactness from a notice of one of my own discourses , which , from its su- perior tone and appearance of vast experience , 1 concluded to have been written by a man ...
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... natural scenery have an extraordi- nary subjective clearness and fidelity . . . In fine , we consider this as one of the most extraordinary volumes of this or any age . We know of no Eng- lish author who could have written it . It is a ...
... natural scenery have an extraordi- nary subjective clearness and fidelity . . . In fine , we consider this as one of the most extraordinary volumes of this or any age . We know of no Eng- lish author who could have written it . It is a ...
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... natural emulation . With this view , I accordingly lent him some volumes of Pope and Goldsmith , to the assiduous study of which he promised to devote his evenings . Not long afterward , he brought me some verses writ- ten upon that ...
... natural emulation . With this view , I accordingly lent him some volumes of Pope and Goldsmith , to the assiduous study of which he promised to devote his evenings . Not long afterward , he brought me some verses writ- ten upon that ...
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... natural inaptitude , I know not , certain it is that my young friend could never be induced to any further essays in this kind . He affirmed that it was to him like writing in a foreign tongue , -that Mr. Pope's versifica- tion was like ...
... natural inaptitude , I know not , certain it is that my young friend could never be induced to any further essays in this kind . He affirmed that it was to him like writing in a foreign tongue , -that Mr. Pope's versifica- tion was like ...
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... natural objects , than to a perverted moral sense . I was the more inclined to this leniency since sufficient evidence was not to seek , that his verses , as wanting as they certainly were in classic polish and point , had somehow taken ...
... natural objects , than to a perverted moral sense . I was the more inclined to this leniency since sufficient evidence was not to seek , that his verses , as wanting as they certainly were in classic polish and point , had somehow taken ...
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